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Degraded Craters Target Name:   Asteroid Eros Spacecraft:   NEAR Shoemaker Instrument:   Multi-Spectral Imager Produced by:   NASA/JHU Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Cross Reference:   PIA03131 Date Taken:   1 January 2001 Related Document Asteroid Eros Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size PIA03131.jpg JPEG 372 x 472 37K PIA03131.tif TIFF 372 x 472 148.6 kB NEAR Shoemaker captured this picture of two similarly sized craters in different states of preservation on January 1, 2001, from an orbital altitude of 35 kilometers (22 miles). The large "fresh" crater near the top of the frame exhibits a bowl shape with a relatively well-defined, sharp rim. The "degraded" one below it is puckered by smaller craters and probably partly buried by regolith, so the crisp detail visible in the top crater has been lost. The whole scene is about 0.9 kilometers (0.6 miles) across.

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